Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 3225 (1956)

White Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church
1720 Cesar Chavez
Los Angeles, CA

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
4 manuals
53 stops
44 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2007-10-27 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2008-02-15 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Four manual divisions: Great, Swell, Choir, and Positiv. Organ given as a memorial to Felix H. Schubert, MD (a great grand nephew of Franz Schubert) by his wife by Marguerite Lorenz Schubert. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Stoplist with number of pipes in each rank from full-page advertisement entitled "Another Prominent Church Chooses an ESTEY Organ" in the AMERICAN ORGANIST, February, 1957, page 55

"Dedicated on October 27, 1956[,] by Professor Karl Richter of Munich, Germany"
  [For detailed program, etc., click on the Estey site referenced on this OHS page.]

GREAT ORGAN              Pipes
Quintaton          16      61 
Prinzipal           8      61
Rohrflote           8      61
Gemshorn            8      61
Octav               4      61
Nachthorn           4      61
Quint            2-2/3     61
Oktav               2      61
Fourniture         IV     244

SWELL ORGAN
Geigenprinzipal     8      68
Gedeckt             8      68
Viole de Gambe      8      68
Viole Celeste       8      61
Prestant            4      61
Koppelflote         4      68
Nazard           2-2/3     68
Doublette           2      68 
Plein Jeu      III-IV     238
Contra Fagotto     16      68
Trompette           8      68
Fagotto             8      12
Clarion             4      68
Tremulant

CHOIR ORGAN
Nasonflote          8      68
Erzahler            8      68
Erzahler Celeste    8      61
Lieblichflote       4      68
Gemshorn            2      68
Krummhorn           8      68
Rohrschalmei        4      68
Tremulant

POSITIV ORGAN
Singendgedeckt      8      61
Kleinprinzipal      4      61
Blockflote          2      61
Terz             1-3/5     61
Larigot          1-1/3     61
Sifflote            1      61
Cymbel            III     183
Tremulant

PEDAL ORGAN
Soubasse           32      32
Prinzipal          16      32
Contrebasse        16      32
Bourdon            16      12
Gemshorn  (Great)  16      12
Quintaton (Great)  16
Prinzipal           8      32
Spitzflote          8      32
Bourdon             8      12
Choralbass          4      32
Spitzflote          4      12
Nachthorn           2      32
Mixture            IV     128
Posaune            16      32
Contra Fagotto (Sw)16
Posaune             8      12
Posaune             4      12

SUMMARY [listed in advertisement]
Speaking Stops: 53  Separate Registers: 44
               Ranks: 55
       Total Number of pipes: 3,197 




 [Received from John McCraney 2015-10-09.]

Websites

Opus 3225 -White Memorial Seventh Day Adventist Church, Los Angeles, CA [Estey Organs web site] - Photograph, stoplist, image of dedication program (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)